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Cours de Linguistique Generale
Ever noticed how words don’t mean what you think they mean until you see them side by side? Language feels natural, right? But peel back the curtain, and it’s less about some magical link between word and thing, and more about a messy system of differences. That’s the headache—and the genius—Ferdinand de Saussure hands you in his "Cours de Linguistique Générale."
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